June Allyson

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June Allyson(Ella Geisman), (born Oct. 7, 1917, Bronx, N.Y.—died July 8, 2006, Ojai, Calif.), American actress who was typecast as the cheerful girl next door in a series of 1940s and ’50s films. With her trademark throaty voice and sunny disposition, she played opposite Van Johnson in five comedies— Two Girls and a Sailor (1944), High Barbaree (1947), The Bride Goes Wild (1948), Too Young to Kiss (1951), and Remains to Be Seen (1953)—but was best remembered as the caring spouse of Jimmy Stewart in three dramas: The Stratton Story (1949), The Glenn Miller Story (1953), and Strategic Air Command (1955). Some of her other film credits included Little Women (1949), Executive Suite (1954), and The Shrike (1955), in which she played against type as a shrewish wife. In They Only Kill Their Masters (1972), she portrayed a lesbian murderess. In later years she became known to television audiences as a spokesperson for incontinence products.

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